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Past Issues - Alumni

The 19 Musts of 2019 HBS alumni and faculty authors, podcasters, and digital denizens on the year’s most necessary books, podcasts, and apps Remix How the #MeToo movement cracked Drew Dixon’s life wide open—then helped put it back... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of the city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

thought about having an elevator pitch. What's your elevator pitch? Is it: I have a cute widget. Or I have a cute app I want to share with you. Or we’re going to transform the way customers buy and sell, we think we can solve a real... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

popularity of price-matching apps for mobile phones made price differences between retailers transparent, online and offline. Shoppers' desire to test electronics first-hand before purchase drove them to use Best Buy stores as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

Press) The authors discuss the surprising paths people take to entrepreneurship, as seen in this collection of 16 interviews with a mix of established young entrepreneurs (like Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post and Justin McLeod of the dating View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

“They underestimated me and that didn’t work in their favor.” Whitlow advised Black entrepreneurs to get involved in their communities. “Long-term profitability is driven by bringing long-term value to many, many people,” he said. JULY 20 Amira Polack (MBA 2018),... View Details

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particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS, HR-tech, mobile apps and... View Details

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